Announcements
Local author to visit Slatington Public Library on August 5 at 1 P.M.
Local author, Anne Supsic, will be visiting our Book Club on August 5. Anne Supsic is a docent at the Moravian Museum in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a dedicated Francophile, and a bookmark collector.
This event is open to the public, but reservations are recommended. We are reading THE BOOKMARK for this event.
NIGHT OF RECOGNITION
Tuesday, June 11th at 6 p.m.
We honored Rodney and Karen Mummey, whose names have been added to the Louise Hallman Memorial Plaque, and local businesses and organizations, who have been recognized and whose names have been added to our new Business and Organization Partners Plaque.
Slatington Open Golf Tournament
Women’s Club of Slatington
Second Chance Shoppe
Pampered Chef Consultant, Heidi Kistler
Dr. Linda K. Blose
Law Offices of Steckel and Stopp
Drs. Cressman and Yablonski Family Practice
Rotary Club of Slatington
We thank them for their donations of $500 or more during 2023.
WONDERFUL WORLD OF WILDLIFE PROGRAM
For children through grade 5. Join us on June 19th at 1:30 p.m. for our first get-together. Come and learn about wildlife through stories, crafts, and fun. This program is being held each Wednesday : June 19 and 26, July 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31, and August 7. We look forward to seeing you!
Our library is now resource-sharing with Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Bangor, and Monroe County. That's good news for us! Resource-sharing opens up the world of library collections to library patrons, enabling them to request whatever they want or need. It saves libraries money by reducing the need to purchase materials; libraries share them with each other instead. And our members still have access to all the libraries in our consortium without ever leaving Slatington!
DONALD D. OWENS READING CHALLENGE
CONGRATULATIONS to our winners Eileen Andrews, Monica DeLong, Pearl Van Horn, and Journey Van Horn. Each of our winners received a $25 cash prize.
Rotary Club President Tim Silliman presents a check for $1500 to Treasurer Lynne Fedorcha and Board Member Renee Evans. The check will kick off a new early literacy program, 1000 Books Before Kindergarten.
GRANTS
We are grateful recipients of $20,000, awarded by the Harry C. Trexler Trust. This grant will enable us to replace almost all of the computers used by our patrons. Our current computers can no longer be upgraded and this replacement is really necessary. The total cost of the replacement is $25,000; so this grant is quite helpful!
Thanks to the Hommer Grant for awarding us $7,500 to repair water damage in the back of our building. The total cost of this repair is $12,150; so this grant money provides us with a great down payment!
Many thanks to the Rotary Club of Slatington for their 2024 grant of $1500. This money will help us kick off our 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Program. We are very excited about this early literacy incentive program.
We are grateful to Mickley Fravel for their 2024 grant of $6000.00 which is being used to renew our SPARK (online catalog) subscription.
Thank you to BEFESA (formerly Horsehead) which has granted us $5680 to assist in purchasing staff computers.
We are also grateful to the following grants, foundations, and donors for contributing to our elevator project:
Hommer Grant, Trexler Foundation Grants 2020 and 2022, GoFundMe 2020, Horsehead 2020 and 2022. and 2023 Century Club Donations. Additionally, we have received funds from other local organizations, most notably The Second Chance Shoppe of Slatington. We have also received a generous contribution from Rentschler Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram. The generosity of all our donors is very much appreciated.
The Harry C. Trexler Trust 2023 ($25,000) was used to repaint our ceiling and restore the skylight. The family of John Kisthardt, a long-standing member of our board who passed away in November of 2021, also contributed $5000 to this project in his memory. The restoration of the skylight was a dream of his. A Middle School student, Phoenix Jacob, established a GOFUNDME page which contributed $903.22 to the skylight project. The total cost of the skylight project was $28,500. You are still able to contribute to this project as we were $4,403 short of our funding goal.
Here are some video chats and walks
shared by the Slatington History Preservation Society.
A Cemetery Walk featuring presentations on notable individuals and families responsible for the development and growth of the village of Slatedale, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
(Click on the underlined title)
(Click on the underlined title)
This presentation features prominent buildings, businesses, and people that contributed to Slatington's development and expansion during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
(Click on the underlined title)
The Slatington History Preservation Committee visits the Heidelburg Union Church in Germansville, Pennsylvania to present the history of the church and its cemetery and highlight families and individuals, originally from Germany and Switzerland who were the original settlers in Northern Lehigh County, and who were influential in the founding of the church and the Northern Lehigh County area. The church is the oldest in the area and was the focal point for farmers and their families during colonial times. Many of these founding families and their descendants later settled in Slatington and Washington Township and were influential in the development of those areas as well.
(Click on the underlined title)
(Click on the underlined title)